Some 130 papers cover packing geometry; cohesion and cracking; measurement systems; wave propagation; quasi-static modeling and behavior; submerged behavior; localized deformation; externally forced behavior; shear, vertical, surface, vibrated, and mixed flow; and viscous flows and crushing. Among specific topics are microtopology using a cellular automata model, the role of dilatancy in the plasto- dynamics of granular solids, stress transition around large spherical inclusions in granular media, similarity rules for rotary kiln scale- up, dense granular flows in a vertical chute, and the spatiotemporal dynamics of a shallow fluidized bed. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)